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Title: Soul Sword: The Way and Mind of a Warrior by Vernon Kitabu Turner ISBN: 1-57174-039-2 Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: You made me think Kitabu, and I thank you for it!!
Comment: When I was living in Virginia Beach I met a most wonderful man, that man is Vernon Kitabu Turner. We met each other in September 1998 at a coffeehouse that he frequents. During the time that I was in Virginia, and even now as I sit out in the Gulf on the USS Carl Vinson, we talked about everything and anything. He helped me realize that there was more than one way to look at life, and many more things to life than what I know. When I bought his book I started reading it the moment I got home. Every night I would read it until I couldn't keep my eyes open. I just finished a few weeks ago, and I plan on reading it again and again. The teachings are very insightful and make you look at your life and re-evaluate the way you deal with things. I miss the face to face conversations I had with this great man. The joys of being able to communicate with him via e-mail will have to do. He makes me look at what life is, and what it could be. Thank you very much Kitabu, I wait for the day we are face to face again!

Beth Ann Charlton

Rating: 5
Summary: Soul Sword Shimmers
Comment: I am a female martial artist taught to fight and think like a man. I always felt something was missing but I did not know what. When I read Soul Sword by Vernon Kitabu Turner I found the answer. The author put me in touch with the feminine way of power in a way I never imagined. I found myself melting inside as I discovered I did not have to be "tough" to defend myself, or practice the Way of The Warrior which I love. The writing of Vernon Kitabu Turner sparkles with wisdom which is written in deceptively simple but beautiful lanquage. It flows through your mind into your heart. One suspects that his own Soul Sword is so keen that it could cut you through before you noticed, and you wouldn't even feel pain, only love. If this doesn't make any sense to you, read Soul Sword, then you will know the essense of a spiritual warrior, not the men or women of old but the teachings of a modern master, proven in the streets of New York City. Turner's book is not about Zen. It is Zen. Soul Sword shimmers. It is the kind of book you want to give as gifts to people you really care about. I keep looking for it on the New York Times bestseller list. It has my vote and Kitabu has my heart. If you love a great read which reaches your heart, mind and spirit, buy Soul Sword. You will want to keep it close at hand to study time and time again, I do.

Rating: 5
Summary: Illuminating
Comment: I have not only had the pleasure of reading Soul Sword and recommending it to my friends but I have been touched by its message. ...The author is a Dharma successor of a master and Truth is universal. Many Zen masters, ancient and current have no problem quoting the Bible. Soul Sword reveals that the author's Zen and Christian experience progressed seamlessly and without conscious design or internal conflict. He helps us to become aware that the divisions that we see are only because mind and spirit are split apart. Christ underscored this dichotomy as strongly as did The Buddha..."The mind and spirit are enmity to each other." we are told. In Soul Sword Kitabu outlines the path he took to warriorship,both physically and spirituallly, a path which brought his mind into submission to the Divine Spirit. This is what the biblical warriors, David, Joshua and Sampson also did. No one can prove that the Shaolin and Zen inspired samurai did not embrace that same Spirit in the silence of their meditation. That is their secret.

Soul Sword is not talk. When "What is Enlightenment?" magazine did nearly a 20 page aricle on the author, many people became curious and wanted to see or test him out. I witnessed an incredible demostration at Aikido of Fresno where he took on all comers in a peaceful loving manner. It was an open forum with masters and experts from any style invited to come. The author came alone. In one demonstration he knocked down six practitioners with a single finger while they resisted with all their strength. He was fluid, graceful and inspiring to all. Now that was Zen action. Religion is in the head, Soul Sword reveals it comes alive only after we put it into personal practice. By definition, when one can act from The Spirit of Heaven that is Zen. Zen is not a religion, per se. It is a word used to indicate athe methodology of taming the mind, and the activity which results from illuninated mind. D.T. Suzuki/Roshi said that Zen can be practiced by those of ANY religion. Vernon Kitabu Turner/Roshi and Soul Sword proves that it is so. Those of us here need American masters to help us understand and recover our Original nature. Who knows us better. Soul Sword is a bold step in that direction. I sincerely hope the author gives us more to digest.